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CHINA TRADE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[September 9.]
SECTION 3.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 9.)
(No. 355.)
Peking, July 22, 1907. WITH reference to my despatch No. 335 of the 11th instant, I regret to have report that I have now received a semi-official letter from Mr. Fulford, His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, from which it appears that the announcement of the Japanese papers that differential rates to Dalny were to cease on the 1st instant has not been fulfilled. The rates to Dalny are 3 cents, 24 cents, and 1 cents per ton per mile for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class goods. Mr. Fulford states that he was misled by the positive tone of a Mukden paper to give the erroneous news contained in his despatch of the 8th instant.
Mr. Fulford also reports that pending arrangements with Japan respecting settlements and customs on the railway, nothing can be done in customs matters. The Japanese have no need of the exemption certificates to force their goods along the milway or into the open towns.
The first exemption certificate which came to Mukden, covering some sugar of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, was refused recognition by the Tax Office, which claimed consumption tax. After some trouble, Mr. Fulford, however, arranged the
matter satisfactorily.
I have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.
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